John, Please do not bring up the forbidden term (in any context)! A universal sidereal standard would come back to haunt the list forever!
Ed ----- Original Message ----- From: John McKown <joa...@swbell.net> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Cc: Sent: Saturday, October 8, 2011 5:32 PM Subject: Re: Chaos feared after Unix time-zone database is nuked >From what little I understand, it is not really the timezone information, per se. It was, supposedly, using copyrighted information for historical timezone information along with methods of determining the TZ for a given date and place. I'm not into astrology, but true believers in it are very exacting about when and where a person was born. So that they can precisely determine the stellar and planetary configuration as viewed at the instant of birth at the location of birth. The complaint is that the database illegally copied this information from their copyrighted and published information. On Sat, 2011-10-08 at 16:17 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote: > For the US. Each country sets it own time zones. In Australia, each state. > Maybe we could get the UN or the Astronomical Union to keep track of time > zones? > > On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Ed Finnell <efinnel...@aol.com> wrote: > > Seems like it ought to be a link from NOAA or Naval Observatory time. > > > > In a message dated 10/8/2011 10:23:24 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > > paulgboul...@aim.com writes: > > > > Unix time-zone database is nuked -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
